The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-03-03

hearing nnty her ou,t rofces. -
II don't mean to say" said Kate demu-ely,
shat you're to give UP the serape entirely;
You can wear it OH rainy nights and when
you ride over hero from your friends house
to spend the evening-for the sake o. old
times" she added, with an unconscious air of
referring to an already Anticipated friend
ship; "but you must admit it's a little too
gorgeous and theatrical for the sunlight of
day and the public highway"
"But why should that make it wrong, if the
experience of people has shown it to be a
garment best fitted for their wants and re-
quirements!" said Falkner argumentatively
"But You are not one of those people," said
Kate, "and that makes oil the difference.
You look differently and act differently. so
that there is something irreconciiable between
your clothes and you that makes you look
odd"
"And TO look odd, according to your civil
tied prejudices, is to be wrong said Falkner
bitterly. ..' '.'1. - g..
at Is to seem different from what one
really il which is wrong, Now, you are a
mining superintendent, you tell me- Then
you don't want to look like Spanish brig
and, as you do in that serape. I am sure IL
you had ridden up to a stage coach while I
was in it I'd have handed You my watch
and purse without word. There! you arc
not offendedp she added, with a laugh,
which did not, however, conceal a certain
earnestness. II suppose ought to have said
would have given it gladly to such ro-
mantle figure, and perhaps have got out and
danced saraband Or bolero with you-if
that Is tho thing to do nowadays. WE'LL" she
she said, after Q dangerous pause, consider
that I've said it." :
with his face turned toward the distant
mountain. Suddenly he stopped and faced
her. =
"You would have given enough of your
time to the highwayman, Miss Scott, as
woull have enabled you to identify him for
you would have been willing to sacrifice
yourself for the benefit of the laws Of ci,iliza.
ton and good order"
II denial TO this assertion could have been
expressed without the use Of speech, it was
certainly transparent in the face and eyes of
the young girl at that moment. If Falkner
had been less self-conscious he would have
seen it plainly. But Kate only buried her
face In her lifted muff, slightly raised her
pretty shoulders, and, dropping her tremulous
eyelids, walked on at seems o pity" she
said after q pause, "that we cannot preserve
our own miserable existence without taking
something from others-sometimcs even a
ife,' lie started. "And it's horrid to have
to remind you that you have yet to kill some
thing for the invalid supper, p she continued.
u saw hare in the field yonder.n
"You mean that jackass rabbitl' be said
abstractedly.
"What you please. It's pity you didn't
take YOU. gun instead of your rifle"
II brought the rife for protection"
eApd . shotgun IS only aggressive, sup
poser
Falkner looked at her for moment, and
then, as the hare suddenly started across the
open q hundred yards away, brought the rife
tohis shoulder. A long Intervals it seemed
TO elapsed; the animal appeared to be
already safely out of range, when the rife
suddenly cracked: the hare bounded in the
air like a ball and dropped motionless. The
girl looked at the marksman in undisguised
admiration. SIS it quite deadr she said
timidly.
GIt uaver kpevv vvbaf struck n
ut certainly looks less brutal than shoot
ing it with shotgun, as John does, and then
not killing it outright said Kate. Il hate
what is called sport and sportsmen, but q
rife SEEMS
1Whatp said Fallxner.
aMore-gentlemanly."
ebs bad raised heF pFetts hsad Ia the air,